Performant: I do not think it means what you think it means.

Around Microsoft, people talk about making things performant. They mean "fast" or "performs well".

It is a real word, but according to OED, it means a person who performs something.

In any case, I think it really isn't all that important (that is a "real word"). I know what they mean, they know what I mean, and isn't that the point?

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 16, 2007
  I wonder if the first 'Softie to use it was French?

• Anonymous
  March 20, 2007
  Hmm. Guess I'm not the first person to say this. http://boulter.com/blog/2004/08/19/performant-is-not-a-word/